Tweaking Optimizing Windows.pdf - GEGeek

enables NetBIOS name resolution. Presence of the WINS server(s) is crucial for locating the network resources identified using
NetBIOS names. WINS servers are required unless all domains have been upgraded to Active Directory and all computers on the
network are running Windows 2000.
Disabling or turning off WINS results in the following:
Location of the Windows NT 4 domains fails.
Location of Windows 2000 Active Directory domains by Windows NT 4 clients fails.
NetBIOS name resolution fails unless a device whose name should be resolved is on the same subnet as the device attempting
name resolution and the latter is configured to attempt NetBIOS name resolution using broadcast.
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
provides system management information. WMI is an infrastructure for building management applications and instrumentation
shipped as an integral part of the current generation of Microsoft operating systems. Its primary purpose is to reduce cost of
ownership for Microsoft operating systems and applications.
WMI makes applications and systems less expensive and easier to manage by providing comprehensive, easily accessible
information about applications and services, including management events those applications and services may generate. WMI
provides access to the management data through a number of interfaces, including COM API, scripts and command-line interfaces.
WMI is compatible with previous management interfaces and protocols, such as Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) WMI
is a crucial part of Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 infrastructure, and the service is used by internal and external partners to
access management information. If this service is turned off, this valuable information will be unavailable. Leave this set to
Automatic.
Windows Management Instrumentation Driver Extensions
tracks of all of the drivers that have registered WMI information to publish. If the service is turned off, clients cannot access the
WMI information published by drivers. However, if the APIs detect that the service is not running, it will attempt to restart it. This
should be set to Automatic as it seemingly gets Started even if you set it to Manual. Setting it to Disable (Or attempting to Stop
the service) will display the following error window.
Windows Media Monitor Service
provides services to monitor client and server connections to the Windows Media services.
Windows Media Program Service
roups Windows Media streams into a sequential program for the Windows Media Station Service.
Windows Media Station Service
provides multicasting and distribution services for streaming Windows Media content.
Windows Media Unicast Service
provides Windows Media streaming content on-demand to networked clients.
Windows Time Service (W32Time)
sets the computer clock. W32Time maintains date and time synchronization on all computers running on a Microsoft Windows
network. It uses the Network Time Protocol (NTP) to synchronize computer clocks so that an accurate clock value, or timestamp,
can be assigned to network validation and resource access requests. The implementation of NTP and the integration of time
providers makes W32Time a reliable and scalable time service for enterprise administrators. For computers not joined to a domain,
W32Time can be configured to synchronize time with an external time source. If this service is turned off, the time setting for local
computers will not be synchronized with any time service in the Windows domain, or an externally configured time service. You
may leave this Service set to Manual.
Workstation
provides network connections and communications. The workstation service is a user-mode wrapper for the Microsoft Networks
redirector. It loads and performs configuration functions for the redirector, provides support for making network connections to
remote servers, provides support for the WNet APIs and furnishes redirector statistics. If this service is turned off, no network
connections can be made to remote computers using Microsoft Networks. Should you have the Alerter or Messenger Services set to
Automatic then set this to Automatic also. Otherwise you should be able to safely set this to Manual instead.
World Wide Web Publishing Service
provides HTTP services for applications on the Windows platform. The service depends on the IIS administration service and kernel
TCP/IP support. If this service is turned off the operating system will no longer be able to serve act as a Web server. If you have
IIS 5.0 installed, & is configured to provide a Website on your machine set this to Automatic, otherwise leave it set to Manual.
Should you find that any of the Services you have attempted setting to Manual are Started when Windows 2000 is loaded you
should set them to Automatic instead. You may verify this by checking the Status tab in the Services Utility in Administrative Tools.
By now you should have finished customizing your system Services settings. Hopefully by now you will have reduced the amount of
Memory consumed by the Services program (services.exe), disabled certain Services to improve your systems security or just
configured the Services to enhance your Networked environment, or Standalone operating environment.
3. MSConfig
If you like to use MSCONFIG from Windows98, you can still use it with Windows2000.
Just copy the file to a place in your path (e.g. \WINNT). You will get an error about a file Regenv32.exe. It will work fine without it
but I just copied that file from Windows 98 as well.
4. Turn off Windows 2000 system file protection
For the most part I view SFP as a good thing but there are reasons to disable it - many people dont want the OS spending cycles
doing this, disk space may be light and the world made it this far without SFP so its not absolutely necessary. Howerver unless you
routinely experience problems with it, it's probably either left alone or tweaked to a size that makes you comfortable.
Both registry keys in question are found at:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon